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This book is an effort to consolidate several different perspectives on antitrust law. First, Professor Hylton presents a detailed description of the law as it has developed through numerous judicial opinions. Second, the author presents detailed economic critiques of the judicial opinions, drawing heavily on the literature in law and economics journals. Third, Professor Hylton integrates a jurisprudential perspective into the analysis that looks at antitrust as a vibrant field of common law. This last perspective leads the author to address issues of certainty, stability, and predictability in antitrust law, and to examine the pressures shaping its evolution. The combination of these three perspectives offers something new to every student of antitrust law. Specific topics covered include perfect competition versus monopoly, enforcement, cartels, section 1 doctrine, rule of reason, agreement, boycott, power, vertical restraints, tying and exclusive dealing, horizontal mergers, and conglomerates.

Contents:

Part I. Economics:

1. Definitions

2. Perfect competition versus monopoly

3. Further topics

Part II. Law and Policy:

4. Some interpretations issues

5. Enacting the antitrust law

6. What should antitrust law aim to do?

Part III. Enforcement:

7. Optimal enforcement theory

8. Enforcement provision of the antitrust laws

Appendix

Part IV. Cartels: 9. Cartels

10. Conscious parallelism

11. Conclusion

Part V. Development of Section 1 Doctrine:

12. The Sherman act versus the common law

13. Rule of reason and per se rule

14. Conclusion

Part VI. Rule of Reason and Per Se Rule:

14. The case for price-fixing

15. Per se and rule of reason analysis: further developments

16. Per se versus rule of reason tests: understanding the Supreme Court's justification for the per se rule